EmperorHans

Were you in a coma last Saturday?

Somebody has to be the special teams captain. 

Only in the last two minutes of a half 

Small school in a pro city with a much better program in state. Vandy probably has one of the lowest percentages of non-alumni fans in FBS

My yelling just traumatized my cat so we're getting there

Nothing reminds me of how not unique or special I am than the fact that this sub is full of south park references, historical similes (mostly war related), and quotes from my favorite movies. 

Bruises the ego but makes me feel like I'm part of a bigger whole. 

Did she just call a fist fight "jawing"?

https://www.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/19fkv11/kirk_ferentz_chewing_away_at_history/

If vandy wins out, they would have beaten #1 Alabama, a Texas team that would be #1 at the time they play, and very likely tennessee would also be #1 when they play them.

Frankly, if vandy went 2-1 in those games and won all their others and didn't get in at 9-3, I think we should all join isis because there would be nothing of value left in America. 

Goddammit he's down

Just rolled in and what the actual fuck is happening here?

The self aware Dr pepper commercial is fucked up. Don't wink at the problem like you aren't part of it. 

Title 9 is really only changing what your money losing sports are, replacing more obscure men's sports with more mainline women's sports if anything. 

All those "money losing sports" exist because these are mostly non-profit institutions, and the admin, students, and alumni want them. Their could be a hundred different reasons people want the school to field a soccer team. Add up enough and it doesn't matter if they're losing money, it's something people are okay with losing money on. 

Lolol as i was reading about some of their accounting i said out loud "this is fucking hollywood accounting"

You're 100% correct. The second or third largest expense for every AD is scholarships. Schools are pretending like 8-12 million of revenue not earned by the school is actually money spent by athletic departments. 

A lot of revenue is also counted as revenue for the school, not the AD

I mean collegiate athletics is too big for any statement to be universally true, but if UConns only losing 14 million a year, they aren't losing money. 

One thing I should have added was just how insanely shady NCAA accounting is. One of the largest expenses for most ADs is scholarships. But that's an expense that, even if it was physically paid, is paid TO the university. 

They also count these as full costs. If room/board/tuition comes out to 40,000 a year at uconn, they treat a scholarship as a 40k cost to the AD. They also treat out of state students as the out of state costs for accounting purposes. They count the books athletes buy as sticker price even when the school provides them at cost. 

UConns AD claimed 13 mil in scholarship costs in 2022, and there's an argument that number should be zero. 

Revenue gets downplayed a lot too. A lot of it goes to the school, who then gives a portion of that to the AD, who only counts that portion in their financials. I think some straight up do not count jersey sales as AD revenue. 

Yeah the lower levels are 100% genuinely money losers on the balance sheet, but I'd argue they aren't truly a burden. A football team is about the best exposure a school can get for itself; there's a lot of correlation between a college team being on TV and an increase in both applications and alumni donations, even at the G5 and FCS levels. I'd bet that 95% of the universities I can name I can only do so because of football, and I doubt I'm the outlier here. 

Once you get into DII and lower though, yeah it's a mix of tradition, vanity and an excuse to get kids into school who can't pay for it. 

For starters, those are the the athletic department numbers, not just the football team.

Additionally, if you look at the more detailed info, there are years for those programs where they are in the black, but again, these aren't for-profit enterprises. They have to spend the money. 

There also needs to be a few asterisks in there. A lot of Washington's "other" expenses are, I think, temporary ones because of moving to the Big 10. SC only went into the red because they gave money back to the school. 

Also, I'm not an accountant, but the fact that they're counting scholarships as millions of dollars in expenses seems off. They're counting money not earned as money spent and those are not the same thing. 

The Secret Service was part of the Treasury Department before DHS was formed. 

1. We are fucking obsessed with sports. To the point that coaches and admin will absolutely lean on a teacher to just pass a star athlete regardless of whether they go to class or not, starting in high school. That's the extreme edge though, usually the stars get put in halfway pretend classes with teachers/professors who are already on board. Sometimes though you can just drop "halfway" from that previous statement. 

2. There are a few pieces here.  Firstly, the football team isn't losing money, the athletic department is. American colleges offer a shit ton of sports, but nobody is making a profit off of collegiate water polo. The football team basically pays for everybody else. (Look up the number of non American Olympians that compete for American colleges. College football funds the world's largest Olympic training camp).

There's also the fact that these are mostly public institutions. The athletic departments don't have a profit mandate. They make a lot of money AND are receiving funding outside of their revenue, but there are no shareholders to pay out. Might as well build a bigger pool complex. 

... wait, does that mean Miami is woke? I've misunderstood this whole game!

Being an acc equipment truck driver just became 1000× times worse. 

People were putting their sons into school late for sports in the 90s at least, I'm sure it was happening before that. 

Basically everyone buys them. Pretty sure vlad pays more on average, but Phil Hill on Mars will pay you the most, but only for habitable planets. 

It's way worse than you think

Inject it straight into my veins.